Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of Harvard University is well known in Russia," group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference...
...Halleck has come to insert a "Lincoln" in his father's name because, as a brother explains, it "sounds good to say that in Lincoln Day speeches...
...scant attention to the significant events of the day. The kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
...last week, clutching a color insert torn from the current issue of Asahi Science Magazine (circ. 90,000), subscribers streamed into Canon Camera Co. service stations in five Japanese cities. One side of the insert bore color pictures of Niagara Falls and London's Big Ben clock tower, the other a solid block of brown ink. As the subscribers listened spellbound, the insert, placed face up in a table-top device called a Synchroreader, reproduced the awesome thunder of Niagara Falls, the clangorous toll...
What mesmerized Asahi Science readers-and in three days sold out an extra-run issue of 100,000-was an ingenious application, by Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Yasushi Hoshino, of an old sound-recording technique. Niagara's roar was magnetically and invisibly etched in the insert page's brown ink, exactly as sound tracks are laid on magnetic tape...